Cleveland Browns running back Nick chub is ahead of schedule in his comeback from injury and recently showed off his rigorous workout routine as he preps for his return to the field inside his old stomping grounds at the University of Georgia's training facility chub is hoping to turn the tides on a gruesome knee injury for the second time in his career in an effort to get back to All Pro Form in the NFL this season I like where I'm at I'm where I need to be chub told the Associated Press earlier this month in his first public comments of the offseason I would say that the biggest thing for me is getting better every day the training video this week shows managing one-legged jumps on his surgically repaired knee with Precision chub's knee was obliterated after a hit by Pittsburgh Steelers safety Minka Fitzpatrick during week two last fall chub was in the midst of his sixth season with the Browns after the team drafted him with the 35th overall pick in the 2018 draft he took a pay cut this offseason in Cleveland and was willing to restructure his contract to help the team a blessing chub said they could have just cut me dry and left me hanging right but they did a great job I want to be here in Cleveland they know that so we came to a great Point chub a four-time pro bowler returns to Athens often and is one of the most beloved players in program history certainly no one in Kirby Smart's tenure as coach he's a former five-star Prospect in the 24 14 recruiting class and was ranked as the no 17 player nationally and fourth best ball carrier that cycle by 247 Sports he's an incredible human being first and foremost smart said last year via dogs 247 what kid still goes back to his high school weight room strength coach program track and works out like he does just very rare in the Sports World to find someone as humble and just a great person he is I reached out to him he's probably flooded with all kinds of people reaching out to him so no expectation of anything in return just a lot of respect for him and what he does for this program in terms of toughness Buy in giving back chub was in the middle of rehabbing the knee injury he suffered in 2015 when smart was hired as the Bulldog's head coach he returned to the field for Smart's debut and took 32 carries for 222 yards and two touchdowns in the B dos 33 24 Victory over North Carolina